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By Rob Goldberg
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 28 July 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2710-2
... fashion dolls feminism action figures gender nonsexist ...
Book Chapter

By Rob Goldberg
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 28 July 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027102-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2710-2
... itself. fashion dolls feminism action figures gender nonsexist ...
Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
Published: 25 March 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374404-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7440-4
... research in a politically charged context. It outlines how the author’s prolonged presence among Afro-Colombians in Guapi led to a dialogical engagement, drawing on a rich tradition of experimental ethnographies and activist methodologies proposed by paradigmatic figures such as Paulo Freire and Orlando...
Published: 01 January 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375814-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7581-4
.... Event-based outbreaks of action beyond self-interest are analyzed, from the “ordinary heroes” beloved of the media to the popular uprisings of 2011. Nonpersonal sympathy and intuitively self-made decision are essential to such outbreaks of ontopower, for which the catalytic figure of the “activist...
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 18 November 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374695-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7469-5
... “All Voice; All Ears: From the Figure of Sound to the Practice of Music” is concerned with common assumptions about music and its definition. One major problem with the naming process in general is that the name becomes an index for an experiential phenomenon. Relying on the index, we become...
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 19 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373780-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7378-0
... the threads of the string figure have been tracked far, remembering their cyborg littermates, woman and dog find themselves in histories of veterinary research, endocrinology from the 1930s on, Big Pharma, horse farming for estrogen, zoos, DES feminist activism, interrelated animal rights and women’s health...
Published: 01 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027478-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2747-8
... for the development of alternative social forms that can transcend the limitations of the capitalist lifeworld. The chapter argues that social labor provides a valuable resource for rethinking the self-transformative potential of praxis. It also informs the work of figures such as Habermas and Honneth as they seek...
Published: 01 December 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2747-8
.... The chapter contrasts two modalities of dematerialization that occur during this period. On the one hand, readers encounter a process of “de-transcendentalization” in the performances of figures such as Adrian Piper, whose work is concerned with forms of critical insight generated in the interstices between...
Book Chapter

By Michael Dutton
Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
Published: 01 September 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5918-9
... are unpacked in such a way as to enable a forensic analysis of two forms of the political. If the war on terror circles around degrees of political intensity, the war on nature largely takes place as an action at a distance abstracted from daily Western life concerns and employing specialist knowledge regimes...
Published: 16 September 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373711-018
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7371-1
... Audre Lorde is a much-revered figure within black queer studies. Her theorization of the erotic is often used to articulate a mode of solidarity in which people from disparate backgrounds can come together to combat oppression. While this use of Lorde’s work has been politically salient, Amber...
Published: 01 January 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7482-4
... in hearing ourselves speak—with or without recording devices—and which involves the production of audio-phonatory loops. Ergo-audition can further be broken down into different categories: cases where sound is isomorphic with the action of producing the sound; those where isomorphism is subtle or staggered...
Book Chapter

By Tim Lawrence
Published: 09 September 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373926-034
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7392-6
... there for sex. The action proceeded to become politically explosive shortly after medics announced that AIDS was in all likelihood caused by a virus that spread through bodily secretions such as blood and semen. Horrified by the intensification of the crisis and the lack of a proportionate response, Larry...
Published: 17 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373360-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7336-0
... and progress. In this tunnel vision of fuel, my informants and historical figures cut off other ways of thinking about energy. Not deliberately—but systematically, nonetheless—all parties to Trinidad’s oil economy have exempted the substance from moral analysis. Here is the greatest complicity: the failure...
Published: 24 February 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7329-2
..., and highlight the key institutional role advertising agencies played in introducing and popularizing media theoretical work, as “actionable theory.” Takemura Ken’ichi Marshall McLuhan in Japan global McLuhan advertising theory and practice German poet and media theorist Hans Magnus Enzensberger...
Published: 01 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373735-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7373-5
... This chapter follows Simón Bolívar, one of the most important figures of the wars of independence in Spanish America, as he sought to revitalize the struggle for Spanish America’s independence in the Caribbean islands of Jamaica and Haiti. It advances four arguments. First, Alexandre Pétion’s...
Published: 01 December 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2747-8
... of resistance, laying the groundwork for the development of alternative social forms that can transcend the limitations of the capitalist lifeworld. The chapter argues that social labor provides a valuable resource for rethinking the self-transformative potential of praxis. It also informs the work of figures...
Published: 05 August 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7402-2
... to global capitalism more broadly in the argument emphasizes cultural histories, (nonessentialized) subjectivities, and situated social action. migrant workers affect temporality This chapter examines three recent documentaries that focus on the children of migrant workers and their access...
Published: 01 December 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2767-6
...The Force of Capital This chapter examines the world of informal and illegal gold mining in South Africa and reflects on the fact that conspiracy theories about gold (including its hoarding, concealment, and theft) have often relied upon gold as a figure of the real and the true at the same...
Published: 09 September 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7392-6
..., Bruce Mailman encouraged his dancers to engage in sexual intercourse during the course of a night when he created a darkened balcony upon opening the Saint in 1980. Even if some approached the balcony in a circumspect manner, if at all, thousands ventured there for sex. The action proceeded to become...
... loyalists plantation New Granada American Revolution Jamaica cotton This chapter follows Simón Bolívar, one of the most important figures of the wars of independence in Spanish America, as he sought to revitalize the struggle for Spanish America’s independence in the Caribbean islands of Jamaica...